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Professional Agile Leadership - Evidence Based Management

Live Virtual Class, October 26, 2021

Class Overview

Leaders and managers are facing increasing challenges as technologies, markets, and customers' needs constantly change. Organizations that use Agile product development techniques will often still employ traditional management approaches, expecting leaders to set firm long-term goals and manage progress toward them with dashboards of static metrics.

In this Professional Agile Leadership - Evidence-Based Management course, you will learn about Evidence-Based Management (EBM) from Scrum.org - an Agile approach to help leaders guide their teams toward continuously improving customer outcomes, organizational capabilities, and business results.

After the class, you will get a passcode to take the PAL-EBM assessment. After passing the assessment, you will gain the industry-recognized PAL-EBM certification, which will never expire.

As an added benefit of attending this class from Unstuck Careersyou get a one-hour professional coaching session after the class. You can use this session for PAL-EBM assessment preparation, coaching to apply what you have learned, or whatever else you need!

Private classes and group discounts are available!

Class Details

Language

English

Delivery Method

Live Virtual Class
Time Zone: America/New York
Start/End Time: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Date

Start: October 26, 2021
End: October 26, 2021

Class Format

Traditional

Partner

Unstuck Careers

Registration & Price

Price: USD 775

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More Information

With markets and customer needs constantly changing, organizations need information and evidence that helps them adapt quickly to new challenges and opportunities to deliver greater value and achieve true business agility. Yet often, organizations that use Agile product development techniques use traditional management approaches, expecting leaders to set firm long-term goals and manage progress toward them with dashboards of static metrics.

That is why Scrum.org created Evidence-Based Management (EBM) - an Agile approach to help leaders guide their teams toward continuously improving customer outcomes, organizational capabilities, and business results. EBM focuses on customer value and intentional experimentation to systematically improve an organization’s performance and achieve strategic goals.

In the Professional Agile Leadership – Evidence-Based Management (PAL-EBM) course, participants learn what EBM is and apply it through hands-on, activity-based learning. Through a series of exercises, participants learn techniques that support a more agile mindset.

PAL-EBM LogoSubject Areas

  • Goals, measures, behaviors
  • Goals versus trust
  • Types of goals
  • Market leaders and losers
  • EBM Key Value Areas
  • Creating an EBM consultative plan

Objectives

In this course, students will:

  • Understand the essential aspects of goals and measures and how they influence behaviors and an
    organization’s culture and values
  • Consider empiricism as a leadership approach to incrementally steer toward the organization’s goals
  • Explore how goals and trust act together to enable autonomy, transparency, and value delivery
  • Correlate market leadership and sustainability to curiosity, adaptation, and empiricism
  • Understand how to use EBM and its KVAs to focus measurements on improving market value and
    operational capabilities

Who Should Attend

This course is most beneficial to professionals in leadership roles such as:

  • Executives, Managers, Program Managers, and others leading product delivery or Agile transformation
  • Product Owners, Product Managers, and other product leaders
  • Scrum Masters
  • Coaches
  • Consultants

Prerequisites

Students will be able to make the most of the class if they:

Assessment & Certification

All participants completing the Professional Agile Leadership - Evidence-Based Management course will receive a password to attempt the Professional Agile Leadership - Evidence-Based Management assessment, included in the course cost. In addition, if you attend this Scrum.org class and attempt the PAL-EBM certification assessment within 14 days but do not achieve a score of at least 85%, you will be granted a 2nd attempt at no cost.

This industry-recognized PAL-EBM certification requires a minimum passing score.

As an added benefit of attending this class from Unstuck Careersyou get a one-hour professional coaching session after the class. You can use this session for PAL-EBM assessment preparation, coaching to apply what you have learned, or whatever else you need!

[Picture of Mark Wavle]About The Trainer

Mark Wavle has been licensed to teach Scrum.org courses since 2016, having taken the PSM class from Ken Schwaber. Since then, he has taught thousands of students in hundreds of Scrum.org classes: Applying Professional Scrum (APS), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II), and Professional Agile Leadership Essentials (PAL-E) - excellent, impactful courses that are well-maintained by the community of trainers.

He's been an employee in and consultant for Fortune 500 companies, regional organizations, and non-profits, working as a Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Trainer, course designer, Leadership Coach, Practice Manager, and National Agile Lead. The diverse industries include medical decide manufacturing, medical insurance, P&C insurance, retail, banking, PLM software, and utilities.

Unstuck Careers LogoScrum.org maintains a defined curriculum for the Professional Scrum courses and selects only the most qualified instructors to deliver them. Each Professional Scrum Trainer is a practitioner and brings their experiences and areas of expertise to bear, but all students learn the same core course content. This consistency and quality helps students effectively apply Scrum in their organizations.

Additionally, Unstuck Careers is officially recognized as a member of the Scrum.org Professional Training Network. This means we align with the Scrum Values, have Scrum.org trainers who teach a qualifying number of Scrum.org Professional Scrum classes, and are committed to improving the profession of software delivery in part by providing Scrum.org training.

What Our Students Are Saying about the PAL-EBM Course

  • "Really appreciate this highly interactive class where both trainers have shared a new perspective on measurement."

  • "This class is bringing vision, measurement and behaviour together in a whole new perspective."

  • "Really enjoyed this class which perfectly ties in the stance agile leaders should take on goals, measures, and empiricism with Evidence-Based Management."

  • "Nice workshop where you can experiment with what Evidence-Based Management really is."

  • "After this class, I have many ideas now on how to work with management on how to lead in an agile setting."